Choices - head or heart?
Last year I went through some really significant life choices - love, home, friends, and happiness of me over others. I always think I listen to my heart predominantly in making decisions, but sometimes this also leads to bending to my hearts desire not to hurt people over myself - is this right...
I have recently been making and using some more 'analytical' methods in looking at decisions and removing some of the 'noise' or emotion involved. Should your heart be part of decision making - yes, but for me they can also skew the perceived outcomes that I envisage in my heart. Some of these approaches leverages Tim Ferriss' methods in documenting the impacts - but importantly for me, impacts of not making the decision or what I would miss out on - it makes the actual process of committing easy when you see the opportunity cost - ideal for procrastinators!
Should decisions be made purely using analytical methods, I don't think so - my heart will always drive me. But an approach of writing down and really studying the true impacts/possibilities/facts in a decision allow me to put some perspective on the decision - positively and negatively.
One personal decision has led to an opportunity to get to know someone that is truly special - dare I say 'once in a lifetime', and for that I am determined to continue to understand different and better ways for me to make choices...and to not f@#k this up.
I have recently been making and using some more 'analytical' methods in looking at decisions and removing some of the 'noise' or emotion involved. Should your heart be part of decision making - yes, but for me they can also skew the perceived outcomes that I envisage in my heart. Some of these approaches leverages Tim Ferriss' methods in documenting the impacts - but importantly for me, impacts of not making the decision or what I would miss out on - it makes the actual process of committing easy when you see the opportunity cost - ideal for procrastinators!
Should decisions be made purely using analytical methods, I don't think so - my heart will always drive me. But an approach of writing down and really studying the true impacts/possibilities/facts in a decision allow me to put some perspective on the decision - positively and negatively.
One personal decision has led to an opportunity to get to know someone that is truly special - dare I say 'once in a lifetime', and for that I am determined to continue to understand different and better ways for me to make choices...and to not f@#k this up.
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